Baum, Avraham-Zvi

Avraham Zvi, son of Chana and Moshe Baum, was born in 1929 in Berlin, Germany to religious parents. When he was five, his family immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. From 1943, he belonged to the Bnei Akiva youth movement and was treasurer of the Tel Aviv branch. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, Avraham Zvi worked day and night as a member of the infantry unit of the Givati ​​Brigade, guarding the borders of the city, and then moved to the besieged city of son of-Shemen, and worked there as a guard. He fell on the 5th of Tammuz (11.7.1948), during Operation Dani. He was first buried in son of Shemen and later transferred to the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.